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because of improperly constructed fabrics and garments. A great many firms asked the Institute to establish standards for washability and maintain testing facilities to assure continued performance.
Out of this educational program grew the Certified Washable Seal of the American Institute of Laundering.
The Institute has unique facilities for the technical phases of its Seal program as part of a million-dollar "proving and improving ground" for the laundry industry, located in Joliet, Illinois.
In addition to extensive laboratories, the plant includes a complete operating laundry. Before a product is accepted for the Seal award, it must pass not only "test tube" standards but must stand up under actual laundering conditions at the Institute. New and old fabrics are tested for their "washability factors" and new methods are developed for their successful processing in the laundry.
Tests consist of repeated washing — washings done just as though the samples were dirty linen received in a family bundle. Then the test samples are taken into the laboratory to be evaluated for washfastness, dimensional stability, sun fastness, tensile strength, crocking or mark -off, bleeding, resistance to perspiration and gas fading. When the test sample is a garment, its seams strength is tested — as well as the buttons, padding, slide fasteners and closures of all sorts, accessories, sewing thread and trim.
Trim on a garment is as important as a fabric. If trim is not washable,
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says the A.I.L., the best fabric canrn make a satisfactory garment.
Thread must not bleed, buttoi must not break, and fasteners mu |\ function if the garment is to be sati factory to the consumer.
Special tests have also been di veloped at the A.I.L. to determir the action of personal deodorants o textiles.
Even after the Seal is awarded manufacturer, it is required that ai approved line of merchandise be sub mitted for testing regularly. Thi continued checking service provide a sufficient number of tests direct!} from production to insure mainte nance of proper standards.
Just as the Seal of the Americar Institute of Laundering is a guide tc merchandise that is "truly" washable, so is the emblem of membership ir the Institute a guide to the consume! as to where to obtain the best laundry service. This A.I.L. emblem is found on the trucks and laundry windows of some 4,651 laundries throughout the country.
Member laundries have access to every type of consulting service and help from the Institute's competent